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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMickR" data-source="post: 804097" data-attributes="member: 51643">You should have stayed in Wallsend for owls    Gill, There used to be Little Owls in Wallsend when I lived there in the 1960s. Just west of the Swallow Ponds. Long-eared owls used to have winter roosts in Wallsend as well, this species being nearer to an area we used to call the Marshes that was east of the Swallow. Roosts of 8-10 birds, if my memory serves me well. Barn Owls as well - on the farm where the Siemens semiconductor family now sits, and at another farm over towards Percy Main. I never saw a Tawny Owl in Wallsend, though. Mick Richardson B <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>